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Hi all, building a custom cocktail arcade with Windows 10 and LB/BB using 2 bog-standard 0-latency USB encoders from Amazon. Windows sees them and they work fine, Emulators see them and they work fine. LB/BB however sees them (they are shown under tools>options>controllers), but allows me limited interaction with them (LB- no inputs work, BB- joystick works but no buttons). Of course I've tried to reset the mappings and nothing gets recognized. I've tried every iteration of using 1 or both controllers ("Enable Game Controller"), I've clean installed, I've deleted LaunchBox\Data\InputBindings.xml No luck. Any paths I have not explored yet?

I am currently working on a build JUST for Taiko no Tatsujin games, which means I will control everything from Hori Tatacons. Currently I have all the emulators configured and mapped to the drums correctly, however I can't get the controllers to map to menu navigation within BB. I have enabled all controllers in the options menu and even set the controller to "Taiko Controller" from the menu but whenever I go to set the menu navigation controls, nothing is recognized from the controller. I'm sure there's a step I'm missing but I'm not sure what. I have attached a photo of the controllers I'm using so you have a better idea.

Hope this is the right place to put this, I don't post to fourms very often so please excuse if this is out of place. Basically I have had launchbox running perfectly for pretty much everything I want it to which has been great, but with a major exception with things that are MAME/MESS exclusive. See I use a Nintendo Switch Pro controller w/bluetooth and a wired hori pad switch controller for gaming. Annoyingly, these don't seem to work with most emulators, and just non-steam programs in general. The work around for me has just been to use steam big picture mode, which has exceptional support for my controller, and I would just open launchbox (or anything really) through steam to get controller support tacked on. However whatever is converting my controller to a readable input in steam isn't recognizable within mame/mess. I can run MAME/MESS games with my controller support if I start BigBox/Launchbox/Mame/Mess outside of steam, but then I can't get like 90% of my other emulators to recognize my controller inputs. Ideally I'd just like to have a uniform way to play games, and hopefully I'm not the only one with this issue. I'd much appreciate any input or suggestions you guys might have, as I've been wanting to explore some of these more obscure platforms for years now, and the added convenience of a universal frontend with my controller to play them would be perfect if i can just manage to set this up. Thank you for reading !